Tim Hammer

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• Posted Blood Is The New Black Celebrates 5th Anniversary at Silverlake Art Crawl to LAist
  As part of the Silverlake Art Crawl, LA-based t-shirt line Blood Is The New Black celebrates it's fifth anniversary by debuting a collection of original works by emerging artists at the Junc Gallery tonight at 7 p.m. Founder and line curator, Mitra Khayyam commissioned this exhibition of original works from artists who have designed for the company. Music will be provided by DJ Demonbabies....
• Posted Jay-Z Announces Staples Center Show, March 26th to LAist
  Jay-Z's show at UCLA this Sunday has long been sold out. Damn college kids and their disposable incomes! Don't worry, LA-based Hova fans. Sean Carter just announced he's coming back. This time he's bringing his show to the Staples Center, March 26th. The rap icon who's currently on the road with Wale and N.E.R.D. finishing up the final dates of his college tour, will pack up his Yankee hat and hit the road again...
• Posted Free Screening of 50 Cent's Directorial Debut to LAist
  (AP Photo/Keystone/Ennio Leanza) Ladies of Burbank, your chances of becoming a millionaire have significantly improved. Why? Because 50 Cent is coming to town. The rapper who claims "Have a baby by me, baby, be a millionaire" in his latest single has embarked on a 10-city screening tour of his new film, Before I Self Destruct. The film will be released on DVD on November 16th along with his new album, also titled Before I...
• Posted Interview: Bill Simmons, ESPN's 'The Sports Guy'/Author of <em>The Book of Basketball</em> to Bostonist
  ESPN.com's Bill Simmons is back in Boston signing copies of his new book, The Book of Basketball today. | Photo by Steven Barry courtesy of ESPN Books. Before ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons became one of these most popular sports columnist in the country he was simply known as “The Boston Sports Guy” writing for Digital City Boston (what Bill has described as “AOL’s digital newspaper”). More than a decade later, the Holy Cross/Boston University alum...
• Posted NBA Preview with J.E. Skeets, Yahoo! Sports to LAist
  The NBA season kicks off tonight and we're checking in with Yahoo! Sports' NBA blogger J.E. Skeets to give us the scoop on the 2009-10 campaign. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) With the World Series upon us, college football reaching it's half-way point and an exciting NFL season heating up, you may not have realized that NBA is tipping off tonight. One guy who's definitely aware of this is J.E. Skeets, Yahoo! Sports NBA Blogger. Skeets'...